The coach built morale with tough training and a couple of easy non-conference games.

The letter from home boosted her morale.

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"We’re seeking a way to boost morale," Dad added.

Kiera Cass -- The Heir

"Is this so they have to go back to the fortress naked and their embarrassment will negatively affect morale?" said Jace.

Cassandra Clare -- City of Heavenly Fire

"I’m sure you should fix them, if not for you for the sake of company morale.

Dave Eggers -- The Circle

They were quite valuable, after all, to the wellbeing and morale of the camp, and vigilance would be in order.

Chang-rae Lee -- A Gesture Life

I decided that mentioning these things might affect group morale.

Rick Riordan -- The Trials of Apollo

"Yes, I do," Tiny said with conviction, "and I’m con— cerned it will affect the morale of our other editors and reporters."

Judy Blume -- In the Unlikely Event

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To see one of their own priming the opposition did something to the team’s morale that hours of practice could not overcome.

Jerry Spinelli -- Stargirl

The memory of defeats followed by eventual victory in the Revolution helped bolster Confederate morale in similar times of trouble.

James M. McPherson -- What They Fought For - 1861-1865

But Betsie’s main concern was not for the morale of Harry and Cato, it was for their very lives.

Corrie Ten Boom -- The Hiding Place

Don’t you see, our morale is the only thing we have left in this hellhole.

William Styron -- Sophie’s Choice

Their morale is low.

Rick Riordan -- The Blood of Olympus

So he says, ’Well if it’s good for morale, then I guess it’s all right with me.’

Dave Eggers -- A Hologram for the King

You know, what the school needs now is a morale-booster.

J.K. Rowling -- Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets

He told other POWs about it, and this gave the men the idea of boosting morale by staging a Christmas play.

Laura Hillenbrand -- Unbroken

There was a novelty to it; she was good for morale.

Tim O’Brien -- The Things They Carried

What is concerned here is not the morale of masses, whose attitude is unimportant so long as they are kept steadily at work, but the morale of the Party itself.

George Orwell -- 1984

I would be responsible for their training, health, welfare, morale, and success.

Wes Moore -- The Other Wes Moore

Don’t let your morale flag.

Yann Martel -- Life of Pi

What’s going to happen to their morale?

Joseph Heller -- Catch-22

To keep our morale up, we sang with discordant enthusiasm.

Homer Hickam -- October Sky

And Ender would return to practice with his leaders, trying to keep up their morale, but sometimes letting slip his disappointment with their weaknesses, the fact that they made mistakes.

Orson Scott Card -- Ender’s Game

He was in charge of morale.

Randy Pausch -- The Last Lecture

CHAPTER 26 After thirteen years, morale among the Alyssians was low.

Frank Beddor -- The Looking Glass Wars

However, the whole movement received a severe blow to its morale on July 22, when Saddam’s sons, Uday and Qusay, who were at least as evil as their dad, were finally nailed at a house in Mosul.

Marcus Luttrell -- Lone Survivor

Happiness had disappeared along with rubber, silk, and many other staples, to be replaced by the wartime synthetic, high morale, for the Duration.

John Knowles -- A Separate Peace

All over the country people are trying to get hold of an old radio that they can hand over instead of their "morale booster."

Anne Frank -- The Diary of a Young Girl

Aunt Petunia seemed to feet that the best way to keep up Dudley’s morale was to make sure that he did, at least, get more to eat than Harry.

J.K. Rowling -- Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire

As June turned to early July, my morale dwindled.

Dave Pelzer -- A Child Called It

To sap our morale.

Cassandra Clare -- City of Ashes

That’s what undermines the morale of an organization.

Ayn Rand -- Atlas Shrugged

The people’s morale was not too bad; we were beginning to get used to the situation.

Elie Wiesel -- Night

It would lower her morale, making her more susceptible to his mind games.

Eoin Colfer -- Artemis Fowl

A duty tour of the UN and a post-UN sandwich! I tried to jack up my morale.

Sylvia Plath -- The Bell Jar

But the thing is, he kept on bitching about the issue day after day, and morale in the office was affected.

Stieg Larsson -- The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo

The Ra’zac separated, then regrouped, only to be swept away as the soldiers’ morale broke and they ran.

Christopher Paolini -- Eldest

But the morale is simply amazing.

Michael Shaara -- The Killer Angels

She tried to boost our morale by suggesting clever strategies for getting into the Land of the Dead, but my heart wasn’t in it.

Rick Riordan -- The Lightning Thief

I didn’t understand why she was reminding me of that prophecy line right now It wasn’t exactly a morale booster, but before I could say anything, Kronos raised his sword.

Rick Riordan -- The Last Olympian

The manner remains intact for some time after the morale cracks.

F. Scott Fitzgerald -- Tender is the Night

When you looked at the process of rebuilding the organization and morale, you had to win the battle against graffiti.

Malcolm Gladwell -- The Tipping Point

But Agamemnon gets things off course by deciding first to test the troops’ morale with a bit of reverse psychology.

Homer -- The Iliad

There is no doubt at all in my mind that his death would be proclaimed as widely as possible by the Death Eaters if it had happened, because it would strike a deadly blow at the morale of those resisting the new regime.

J.K. Rowling -- Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows

Stella [insisting]: I know how it helps your morale just having a little pocket-money on you.

Tennessee Williams -- A Streetcar Named Desire

The report detailed bad morale, numerous procedural violations, and the alarming conclusion that training standards for the 747 "classic" were so poor that "there is some concern as to whether First Officers on the Classic fleet could land the aircraft if the Captain became totally incapacitated."

Malcolm Gladwell -- Outliers

But the South had needed the cheering news from Chickamauga to strengthen its morale through the winter.